~ Pneumonia Diagnosis Kit for Children

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Problem: Pneumonia kills 27,000 Ugandan children under the age of five every year. Most of these cases are due to pneumonia being misdiagnosed as malaria.

Solution: Ugandan engineer Brian Turyabagye has designed a biomedical “smart jacket” to quickly and accurately diagnose pneumonia. The Mamaope jacket measures a sick child’s temperature and breathing rate. It can diagnose pneumonia three to four times faster than a doctor and eliminates most possibility for human error.Read more

Mama Ope proposes to develop a cell phone based lung-monitoring device that could be used to radically improve the early diagnosis of pneumonia. The affordability and wide availability of cell phones make them an innovative platform for the development of simple medical diagnosis capabilities for use in the field. This is especially true in under-developed countries where skilled medical practitioners and their most sophisticated devices are often thin on the ground. Click here for full article

Pneumonia is a killer disease that claims hundreds of lives in Uganda every year. To counter the disease, students of Makerere University have come up with an app, Mama-Ope, that will help diagnose the disease earlier in young children. Mama-Ope is an innovation that was born out of an entry of Mak students in the Big Ideas Innovations competition.

Mamaope is a bio-medical kit that diagnoses pneumonia in young children in its early stages. This comes in handy to curb the high death rates due to pneumonia. It is the leading child killer in Uganda and the world more than measles, malaria and HIV combined. The Uganda Pediatrics Association (UPA) blames this on misdiagnosis by parents and caregivers.